Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?

Abstract

Up to $500m a year could be put to better use by stopping ineffective and potentially harmful supplementation programmes in poorer countries, say <b>JB Mason</b>, <b>CS Benn</b>, and <b>HPS Sachdev</b>; but <b>Keith P West Jr</b>, <b>Amanda C Palmer,</b> and <b>Alfred Sommer</b> disagree, saying that such programmes have been proved to save millions of lives and should be withdrawn only when robust evidence permits